Source: WRAL TECHWIRE, 1/10/19

The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has received two grants totaling nearly $200,000 from the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to validate production of purple carrots and ways to improve hemp crops. The awards were among nine grants totaling nearly $1 million for various projects to boost bioenergy opportunities and crop production in the state. They were awarded by the ag department’s N.C. Bioenergy Research and New and Emerging Crops Initiative.

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